Andrew Keen and Paul Duguid: Is the Web a Threat to Our Culture? March 19, 2008

When Times magazine named “YOU” as their 2006 Person of the Year, it highlighted what has been deemed the democratization of the media. The term “Web 2.0” was coined to describe this transformation on the internet, where individual volunteers, not institutions, control its content. But many people share doubts about the hype around Web 2.0 and have different ideas about what's significant, what's trivial, and what's irrelevant. Protagonists, such as Andrew Keen, believe that it is not only significant, but is significant enough to threaten “our economy, our culture, and our values.” Please join us as UC Berkeley Adjunct Professor Paul Duguid joins Andrew Keen in a debate about the whether Web 2.0 is truly a threat to our culture.

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